Fish eye in clear?

What could be causing our clear to fish eye, but not our basecoat? Using different guns. Clear gun is almost brand new, used it to clear one other box, and it went on fine. Throw all ideas out there, cause we cant figure it out. Tomorrow im gonna pick up another filter and put one in our booth, see if that helps.

Re: Fish eye in clear?

when i spray i always let the bascoat dry, then i wet sand it, use a tack cloth on it and then i spray it with clear, always werkz for me, may not be the best method, but i am always happy with the results

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Re: Fish eye in clear?

and always wetsand between each layer of basecoat and before clearing. use tach cloth and grease/wax remover to clean the surface.
(learned all this in my auto repair class 3-4 years ago).

you dont need to wetsand between any layers unless you have to (ie. serious orange peel) i have never had any problems with laying down base coats, and if there ever is any orange peel, by the time it dries it levels itself out perfectly, now clear coat on the other hand i sometimes have a hard time spraying, put it on too light and you'll have some real bad orange peel, the clear i use needs to be applied in wet coats but just a touch too wet and you get some huge runs, im learner better on applying it and so far have had pretty good results with it but i still find it hard to lay down sometimes.

so what yopu should do is wipe the primed surface with a wax and grease remover, then tack cloth it, lay down 2-3 coats of base, flash 10-15 minutes and apply the clear right over top in about 2 wet coats, and as long as the booth is clean and your using the proper mixing instructions and reducing it properly you shouldn't have any problems, then a afterwards you can cut and buff the clear depending on how bad it is

Re: Fish eye in clear?

bought 2 extra inline filters/water seperators today, added them and also tried a different gun. Still was fish eyeing. Could our clear be bad? We have had it for awhile. Does that stuff just go bad, could something have gotten in it? Any ideas?

Re: Fish eye in clear?

fisheyes arent caused by dirt, those are nibs. Fisheyes are typically caused by silicone. We have had instances in the shop where someone is spraying tire shine on the side of the shop and it gets ****** into the intake of our booth and gets on the car.